A foreign city, dear you

All the small private houses for sale are still rough. The doors of the houses that have been sold are closed, while the doors of the houses that have not yet been sold are basically open.

The layout of this building is still the same as that of Xiya Garden. There is a long corridor in the middle and two rows of houses facing opposite directions on both sides.

The two houses Ye Lian bought are on the 13th floor, and the balconies both face the road. Although there is no good scenery, they are still open, bright and ventilated. Houses like this are easy to rent.

The two houses are next to each other.

One is a standard two-bedroom apartment.

The other apartment is also two-bedroom, but not quite standard.

Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian are now in this substandard house.

This less than standard house looks like this:

The living room is longer and square;

One of the rooms is larger and square;

The other small room is less regular.

Separated between the two rooms are the bathroom and kitchen.

It doesn’t matter how irregular this small room is. What’s important is that this room has two doors. One door is connected to the living room and is an indispensable door; the other door is opened at the innermost part of the room and connects to the outside. To a triangular area.

On the right wall of this triangular area, there are lighting windows for the kitchen and bathroom.

It is this triangular area that Ye Lian focuses on.

It seems redundant, even cumbersome.

Think of it as a small balcony. It is not connected to the living room, and it must be very inconvenient to enter and exit through that small room;

Because of it, there is an extra door in the small room. This extra doorway also affects the placement of furniture.

Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian are now standing in this triangular area.

"This place is of no use." Ye Lian seemed to be talking to himself or to Cao Xueqian.

"Well," Cao Xueqian was also thinking: "We can't make a balcony here, so can we make a utility room?"

"It's possible, but it doesn't mean much. You have to pass through this small room to take everything, which is very inconvenient. And..." Ye Lian didn't seem to have thought about it yet.

"And what?" Cao Xueqian looked at Ye Lian.

"I don't know either. I feel that in a place like Yancheng where land is at a premium, it would be a waste to use an area like this as a utility room, so I thought about how to make full use of it." Ye Lian pondered.

"Use it? You don't want to use it as a room, do you?" Cao Xueqian looked like he had some realization.

Ye Lian walked to the outermost part of the street, which was the widest part of the triangular area.

She opened her arms and said to Cao Xueqian: "Look, this place is so wide, it should be able to place a small bed, and then there can be a small wardrobe against the wall."

Upon hearing this, Cao Xueqian immediately pulled out the soft ruler he carried with him and, with the help of Ye Lian, conducted on-site measurements.

"Indeed, I can barely place a 90-centimeter bed." Cao Xueqian put away the soft ruler again.

"So, it can be used as a room, but the access problem is difficult to solve." Ye Lian still couldn't find a way.

"If it doesn't work, just give up. Block the door in this small room. It doesn't make much sense to leave the door open. It will also affect the layout of the small room." Cao Xueqian said casually.

"Blocking this door will make this area completely unusable and completely wasted. This is a pity. It would be nice if there was another entrance and exit." Ye Lian was reluctant to give up.

"Another entrance and exit?" Cao Xueqian repeated subconsciously.

"Well, there's another entrance and exit."

Ye Lian also repeated it. Suddenly, a bright light flashed in Ye Lian's mind.

She looked at the kitchen window as if she had discovered a new world.

Ye Lian pulled Cao Xueqian away from the triangular area, walked through the small room to the living room, and then into the kitchen, facing the window in the kitchen.

Looking out from the kitchen window, you can see the triangular area outside.

"Qian," Ye Lian looked at Cao Xueqian: "Look, can we open a door in the kitchen leading to the outside area?"

"Open the door here?" Cao Xueqian didn't understand. What's the difference in opening the door in this kitchen?

Ye Lian was a little excited, feeling like she had found a solution to the problem.

She expressed her opinion to Cao Xueqian:

“Although they are both the same door, opening in the room is different from opening in the kitchen.

“The room is a private area, and it is very inconvenient to pass through it, and you can’t get through when the room is closed at night or at noon;

"But the kitchen is a public area, and everyone can come and go freely without being restricted by privacy or time..."

Before Ye Lian finished speaking, Cao Xueqian understood Ye Lian's intention.

"Yes," Cao Xueqian said, "In this case, that area can be used as an independent room."

"Then look, can the door be opened here?" Ye Lian always had to rely on Cao Xueqian for engineering matters.

Cao Xueqian looked at the window in the kitchen again, then stretched out his head to look at the wall outside.

The windows themselves are relatively low.

"Okay," Cao Xueqian said, "knock off a piece of the wall under the window and open a door."

"That's great," Ye Lian said happily: "Then let's change it like this. Open a door in the kitchen, block the door in the small room, and install windows at high places. In this way, our two rooms will be It has become a three-bedroom apartment. Although it is not a formal three-bedroom apartment, it is still more advantageous than a two-bedroom apartment. We can increase the rent by one or two hundred yuan. For tenants, it is more than one or two hundred yuan. You won't be unhappy with a room..."

Ye Lian kept talking.

Cao Xueqian was also happy when he saw her excitement.

"When did you become a house renovator?" Cao Xueqian smiled, his eyes shining with love.

"Hehe," Ye Lian said proudly, "You always said that I can only count the moon, but this time I will also count the stars."

"Okay, okay, you counted the biggest and brightest star."

"You still don't like me, do you?" Ye Lian curled her lips mischievously, but it was obvious that she didn't care: "Okay, the biggest will be the biggest, the brightest will be the brightest, and those small and dense stars will all be connected. I’ll leave it to you to decorate these two houses.”

"Okay, leave it to me. This is a simple rental house. It can be simply decorated. It doesn't require the ability to count stars." Indeed, for Cao Xueqian, who has decorated a house in Jinjing Huayuan, these rental house decorations are just a piece of cake. dish.

Ye Lian was very satisfied. She found that she seemed to have some ideas on the renovation of the internal structure of the house.

The most difficult problem is solved.

Other decoration issues are routine issues that can be settled after a little discussion between the two of them.

Since nothing happened, the two of them prepared to go downstairs to work.

After coming out of the house she bought and walking down the long corridor, Ye Lian wanted to take a look at other houses.

"This house is good."

"This house is good."

……

"There are so many great houses, I really want to buy them all."

……

As Ye Lian walked, she kept shouting like a child.

"You are so greedy." Cao Xueqian laughed from behind.

"Yes. I'm so greedy. If I become an official, I will definitely be a corrupt official." Ye Lian walked backwards and playfully stretched out her arms in front of Cao Xueqian to show that she was a corrupt official.

"Haha, so you can only be my wife."

"Haha, I don't care about being an official."

……

A month later, the two houses were decorated.

Half a month later, the two apartments were rented out as vacant rooms, and the converted "three-bedroom apartment" indeed had an extra two hundred yuan in rent.

Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian, after twelve years of living in Yancheng, a certain status of theirs has changed - from initial tenants to landlords who buy and rent houses.

Some things have gone from being unimaginable at the beginning to becoming reality now...